If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

When you think of 244 years of slavery and 81 years of that finally you are going to be allowed to be part of the pool from which people choose jobs. That's not a substantive kind of move, but it was very important.

Part of the popularity with Louis Farrakhan has less to do with the content of his message and more to do with the form that he portrays himself - as being a free, black person who speaks what is on his mind with boldness and fearlessness. Who is willing to pay the consequences.

The right wing can use anything, and we have to make it very clear and I make it very clear that my love for the president in terms of protecting him and respecting him but also correcting, now all three of those are crucial, and if I can do all three, then the right wing can use it whatever they want, and I'm just clear where I stand, over against them but also critical when the president leans toward the strong, rather than the weak.

To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

One is that I am a regular, everyday person, you know what I mean. I feel that wherever I am, I really am.